Corset-clasp



' I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

THOMAS c. QANDLISH, or sr. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RS YET-Q-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,210, dated June 26,1883.

Application filed November 24, 1882. (No model.)

together; Fig. 2, a'similar view, the parts being unfastened; Fig. 3,ajview in perspective showing that portion of the clasp which isimmediately connected with the lock; Fig. 4,

a view in perspective showing one of the catches; Fig. 5, asection takenon the line 5 5 of Fig. 6; and Fig. 6, a front elevation, showing aportion of the clasp as in the corset.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

This invention relates to the improved means for fastening the clasp.

A A represent the clasp steels or busks. They are of the usual form andcharacternamely, elastic metallic strips. The steels or busks are madeto be connected by means of one or more catches, B B B, and the lock 0.The catches each consist of two flattened hooks, b I), attached,respectively, to the steels A A, and engaging, as shown in Figs. 1 and4- that is, in connecting the hooks b b the point b" of the hook b ispressed underneath the 'point b of the hook b, which is sufficientlyelastic to yield and allow the point I) to enter beneath it. The point bthen closes toward the steel or busk, causing the points I) b? to becomeinterlocked, and when thus interlocked the catch cannot becomeunfastened until the steels or busks have been moved, as shown in Fig.2, sufficiently to bring the hooks out of line with each other, in whichposition of the hooks the steels or busks can open apart.

The lock 0 is designed to prevent any accidental displacement of thesteels or'busksthat is, to prevent either one of the steels or busks.from moving upward or downward, so

as to bring the hooks b I) out of line with the hooks b b, saving whenit is desired to unfasten the clasp.

The lock 0 may be of any desirable construction. I The most desirableform is that shown, which is as follows: One of the steels or buskssaythe steel A-is furnished with an eye, 0, and the other steel or busk isfurnished with a stud, c, and the eye and stud engage, as shown in Figs.1, 3. The clasp is fastened by bringing the parts together, as in Fig.1; but before the clasp can be unfastened the stud 0 must be disengagedfrom the eye 0. The steels or busks can, and then are, moved relatively,as indicated in Fig. 2, causing the catches B B B to open.

In applying the clasp to a corset the usual cloth covering, D, ispassedaround the steels or busks, as in Figs. 5, 6. To prevent the cloth fromwear the steel A is provided with metallic weal-plates E, Figs. 5, 6,against which the hooks b b rub.

The lock 0 need not necessarily be at the upper end of the steels orbusks, as shown, but, if preferred, farther down upon the. steels orbusks, and one or more locks may be used. The hooks need not always beflattened, but in most cases it is desirable.

I claim 1. In a corset, a busk having a lock,G, and elastic hook I),combined with a busk having an elastic hook, I), and a wear-plate, E,whereby the said busks are adapted to be locked 80 together, so that thehook I) will come against said wear-plate.

2. The combination of the steel or busk A, having the catch B, providedwith the flattened hooks b b", and the steel or busk A, providedwith thecatch B, having the flat tened elastic hooks b b, and the metallicwearplate E, between said hook and steel or'busk, substantially asdescribed.

T. O. GANDLISH.

\Vitnesses:

H. H. BAUMER, O. D. MooDY.

